Speaker 1: I'm Doctor Sky and welcome to the Doctor Sky Experience
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Speaker 1: As we continue to move to month number two, February
Speaker 1: twenty twenty three, here is your Doctor Sky Update, as
Speaker 1: we call it, our Sky Update, Episode number seventeen. As
Speaker 1: we move past Valentine's Day, the Day of Love, we begin,
Speaker 1: of course with the moon, Earth's nearest sniper. The moon,
Speaker 1: just in case you're curious, was at its last quarter
Speaker 1: phase on the thirteenth. Then it moves very close to
Speaker 1: the brilliant star and Scorpius known as Ontaris. Then we
Speaker 1: find out that the moon moves on to its closest
Speaker 1: position to us to help the calendar month on the
Speaker 1: nineteenth at energy and just on the next day we
Speaker 1: get the next in the series of moons that we
Speaker 1: call the Dark of the Moon or New Moon. And
Speaker 1: by the way, the day after that's the start of
Speaker 1: lunation number twelve thirty nine lunations that have been characterized
Speaker 1: and plotted on maps and star charts with celeustrial navigation
Speaker 1: and such since nineteen twenty three, but of course, the
Speaker 1: moon's been around way longer than that. As the month
Speaker 1: ends toward February the twenty seventh, we find out that
Speaker 1: the moon once again returns to first quarter. But there's
Speaker 1: so many things to see in our skies in late
Speaker 1: February twenty twenty three, so let's begin with planets. The
Speaker 1: Greek word planet taos. They refer to these objects as
Speaker 1: the wandering stars, and we know in our universe and
Speaker 1: solar system more precisely, that the major planets of this
Speaker 1: solar system move against the starry background as they continue
Speaker 1: to move to the left of the month the zodiac path.
Speaker 1: But what can you see as we move toward the
Speaker 1: end of this month number two, Well, there's a spot.
Speaker 1: And if you're in a more romantic mood, we find
Speaker 1: out that since Valentine's Day is supposed to be the
Speaker 1: day of love, why not have that day every day,
Speaker 1: don't you think, instead of one day on the calendar.
Speaker 1: But that's just bouts off. But when it comes to planets,
Speaker 1: watch the dance of these two planets. I call it
Speaker 1: sacred geometry, we find out looking low into the southwestern
Speaker 1: part of the sky, wherever you're listening to the Doctor
Speaker 1: Sky Experience here on talk radios on the southern WABC,
Speaker 1: the crown jewel of radio, you'll get to see the
Speaker 1: most brilliant of all the planets in the heavens, and
Speaker 1: that's Venus. Who is she? She's the goddess of love
Speaker 1: and beauty, of course. And if you look carefully, the
Speaker 1: object Venus is so bright you don't even need a telescope.
Speaker 1: You can see this. That's for city dwellers right in
Speaker 1: the most brightly lit cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: you name it. The list goes on. But what's interesting
Speaker 1: is if you follow that planet Venus just to the
Speaker 1: upper left right now, by about maybe fifteen degrees, you'll
Speaker 1: come to another brilliant object, and that is Jupiter, the
Speaker 1: god of gods, Yes, Jupiter, the mighty planet itself. So
Speaker 1: there's dance, as we call it, this romantic dance of
Speaker 1: the planets, not to be overleased, but philosophic here or poetic.
Speaker 1: We find out that these two planets will be coming
Speaker 1: into conjunction. So simply watch them as Venus because it's
Speaker 1: a planet's closer to us than Jupiter, This planet Venus
Speaker 1: will glide past the planet Jupiter and form a most
Speaker 1: amazing conjunction in the sky. And how close will they
Speaker 1: get and when will it happen to at the very
Speaker 1: end of February, the short month of this year twenty
Speaker 1: eight dance if you look, then start now. But if
Speaker 1: you look then you'll see them on the morning of
Speaker 1: March the first, which moves into the evening hours in
Speaker 1: the southwest. There'll be the separation distance about that of
Speaker 1: a full moon. Now, isn't that amazing? I think so
Speaker 1: because it's of biblical proportions. Remember, the Star of Bethlehem
Speaker 1: has many answers, and they do come from astronomy and
Speaker 1: maybe astrology because they study the sh strology back then.
Speaker 1: What I'm saying, in simple terms is that this sacred
Speaker 1: geometry of both Venus and Jupiter, the two most brilliant
Speaker 1: planets that we can see in our nighttime sky way
Speaker 1: back then, a conjunction like this is what we call
Speaker 1: sacred geometry. Then don't miss it. If you have a smartphone,
Speaker 1: who doesn't. If you have a camera more sophisticated DSLR,
Speaker 1: who knows. Maybe even a good video camera you can
Speaker 1: capture this. And remember that you saw the beautiful conjunction
Speaker 1: of these two planets. An epic event, and not to
Speaker 1: be overly dramatic, this doesn't happen all that often. So
Speaker 1: remember Venus and Jupiter, the love affair continues. They conjunct
Speaker 1: to the sky. Well what about other planets. Well, if
Speaker 1: you look nearly overhead during these mid to late February evenings,
Speaker 1: the planet Mars continues to drift away from the Earth.
Speaker 1: So right now, as you're listening to this particular Doctor
Speaker 1: Sky experience and talk GIRDO seventy seven WABC, remember as
Speaker 1: you're looking at that orang Ren object, it's about ninety
Speaker 1: three million miles away from the Earth. There doesn't that
Speaker 1: number resonate in most people's minds. Yes, that's the distance
Speaker 1: approximate distance that the Earth is from the Sun. So
Speaker 1: if we move out from the Earth, we find out
Speaker 1: that the planet Mars is that symbolic distance. What does
Speaker 1: it mean for telescopic observers, Well, the planet has shrunken sighs,
Speaker 1: And this is for more sophisticated observers. But stay tuned,
Speaker 1: don't change the channel. We find out that the planet
Speaker 1: Mars has a diameter of about ten seconds of arc. Well,
Speaker 1: it was about seventeen or eighteen seconds of arc back
Speaker 1: when it was closest to us. As we moved into
Speaker 1: the month of December twenty twenty two, As Mars moves
Speaker 1: away from us, naturally it gets fade. It fades a
Speaker 1: bit in the sky. But now let's shift our gears
Speaker 1: to other objects that we can see in the sky.
Speaker 1: Saturn is a planet moved into the Sun's glare right
Speaker 1: around this particular time. The date was the sixteenth of February,
Speaker 1: which means that the planet Saturn will once again return
Speaker 1: to the morning sky. But you'll be better to wait,
Speaker 1: as Saturn will be a magnificent object move towards the
Speaker 1: summer of twenty twenty three high in our skies. Let's
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about some of the other
Speaker 1: amazing things that happen in this particular month. Did you
Speaker 1: know during the dark of the moon, it's a really
Speaker 1: good time naturally to take a look at meteor showers.
Speaker 1: No specific meteor shower is happening here in the month
Speaker 1: of February, but sporadic meteors are occurring all over the
Speaker 1: sky in a dark locations, sit back and relax, have
Speaker 1: a warm drink or whatever you like in adult beverage,
Speaker 1: and just scan the skies. Because patience is a virtue
Speaker 1: when it comes to meteors. But we're seeing a heavier
Speaker 1: increase or a much larger increase that is, of meteors meteoroids.
Speaker 1: And how about that small three meter in diameter object
Speaker 1: that astronomers predicted that it would enter the Earth's atmosphere
Speaker 1: somewhere between Paris and London, and they actually gave a time. Now,
Speaker 1: that's unusual because now we have more sophisticated ways of
Speaker 1: tracking these objects. And lo and behold, if you were
Speaker 1: sitting outside watching on that morning in February, you would
Speaker 1: have seen the object that came one minute earlier than predicted.
Speaker 1: But it's amazing that they could predict it at all.
Speaker 1: Be end off with a brief description of Comet ZTF. Now,
Speaker 1: in my opinion, which we're full of opinions here on
Speaker 1: the Doctor Skuy experience, the media for the most part
Speaker 1: got this comment wrong. They called it the green comet.
Speaker 1: And here out in Phoenix or wherever you're listening to
Speaker 1: this particular program, we find out that many in the
Speaker 1: media incorrectly have told us that this comet, the green comet,
Speaker 1: should be easy enough to see in our skies if
Speaker 1: we just look here there on a certain date and time.
Speaker 1: Wrong these particular objects. As you get accurate information here
Speaker 1: on the Doctor Sky experience, we would tell you this,
Speaker 1: and which is what we've been telling you of. Comets,
Speaker 1: by and large are difficult objects to see in bright
Speaker 1: city lights. Now you may say, wait a minute, doctor
Speaker 1: s guy. We remember looking back to comet hell Bop
Speaker 1: in nineteen ninety seven and simply that commet was so
Speaker 1: bright it wouldn't go away. I had people tell me
Speaker 1: when is that thing going to go? And leave it? Well, comets,
Speaker 1: because of their diffuseness, meaning they look like little fuzzy snowballs,
Speaker 1: you know, in the sky, little balls of cotton. Their
Speaker 1: tails and everything, are very subjective and selective to bright
Speaker 1: city lights. So the bottom line is you couldn't see
Speaker 1: the comet, and the media is telling people go out
Speaker 1: and take a look. So it's kind of doing its
Speaker 1: service to the sybtic of astronomy. But will end off
Speaker 1: on that. On the positive side, if you have a
Speaker 1: telescope fairly good size, let's say six inch diameter and
Speaker 1: you're in dark skies. This is who I appeal to
Speaker 1: who have that equipment. Take a look at the website
Speaker 1: theskylive dot com, one of our favorites that will give
Speaker 1: you the actual information of how to track this particular
Speaker 1: object in both what we call right ascension and declination,
Speaker 1: and not to scare you away from the podcast, right
Speaker 1: ascension and declination are the Heavens components of latitude and longitude.
Speaker 1: So if you see a term called right ascension that
Speaker 1: means like longitude would be on Earth map. The other
Speaker 1: term declination is like latitude on an Earth map. So
Speaker 1: the Sky Live is a great resource we promoted all
Speaker 1: the time you can find out how to find the object.
Speaker 1: Many people have been observing the close conjunction of both
Speaker 1: COMETZTF and the planet Mars, the comet ZTF and of
Speaker 1: course looking at the star Aldeboron and Torres. But for
Speaker 1: those of you out there that are more sophisticated, and
Speaker 1: we certainly want to see you grow into that sophistication. Remember,
Speaker 1: binoculars are great. You don't necessarily have to have a
Speaker 1: large telescope to enjoy the doctor Sky experience. So we
Speaker 1: recommend going there to theskylive dot com to help you
Speaker 1: find where these objects are in the sky and so
Speaker 1: much bok. If you have an email request, it's Doctor
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Speaker 1: search out for the Doctor Sky Blog. As you're listening
Speaker 1: to all the other interviews that we do here, remember
Speaker 1: Doctor Sky reminds you'd always remember to keep your eyes
Speaker 1: to the skies as we talk about the great of astronomy, space, aviation,
Speaker 1: and weather and so much more. And also great interviews
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Speaker 1: heavens encouraging you to get out there and enjoy the
Speaker 1: beauty of our beautiful nighttime skies and daytime skies. As
Speaker 1: we search the skies and try to provide more information
Speaker 1: on what was behind the Chinese surveillance balloon and the
Speaker 1: other three mystery objects, stay tuned